About Us
At present, the College of Engineering consists of 12 Engineering and 4 Basic Sciences departments, totalling to 16 departments, offering 15 Under-Graduate Engineering day-time programmes and 4 UG Engineering part-time programmes; 28 Post-Graduate Engineering programmes, 1 MCA and 3 M.Sc. programmes in various departments. All the departments are also running Ph.D. programmes in different fields of research.
The AU College of Engineering has acquired considerable reputation in the country and has several Centres of Excellence in various fields carrying out research in specialized areas. These include Center for Technology Forecasting (futurology) in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Center for Biotechnology and Center for Phase Equilibrium Thermodynamic in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Center for Energy Systems and Center for Condition monitoring & Vibration Diagnostics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Remote Sensing and Information System in the Department of Geo Engineering and Centre for Research on Off-Shore Structures in the Department of Civil Engineering.
The Government of India through its National Policy of Education, implemented the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) for overall development of Technical Education in the country. The AU College of Engineering is one of the four Lead Institutions selected in the state of Andhra Pradesh for World Bank Aid.